I looked and those screenshots (including the open tabs to porn sites) are still up right now on the FB page for Mike Webb for Congress. Jeebus - every 16 year-old boy in America could tell him you need to delete your browser history before Mom sees it.brian wrote:I know we're anti-LOL, but I literally LOLed at this.Internet fail.
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Yeah, I always get a good laugh when someone uses Yahoo.brian wrote:I know we're anti-LOL, but I literally LOLed at this.Internet fail.
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I can't tell if Google is being geographically biased, so can someone else tell me if there is another Galloping Hill Golf Course other than the one a couple of miles from my house? Especially one in the Virginia area, I guess?
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brian wrote:I know we're anti-LOL, but I literally LOLed at this.Internet fail.
Webb's Facebook page. He changed the post, but left the comments. He changed his post to Bible quotes about seeing the Lord or some shit due to people supporting him. Some of the comments are hilarious. Some guy made a joke about Webb getting creamed in the primary, and he responded with election results saying he doesn't see how that bares a resemblance to getting creamed. Fucking dumbass.
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Webb is a graduate of my fine institution, is running in a district where I could choose to vote for him, and made me want to shake my head.The Sybian wrote:brian wrote:I know we're anti-LOL, but I literally LOLed at this.Internet fail.
Webb's Facebook page. He changed the post, but left the comments. He changed his post to Bible quotes about seeing the Lord or some shit due to people supporting him. Some of the comments are hilarious. Some guy made a joke about Webb getting creamed in the primary, and he responded with election results saying he doesn't see how that bares a resemblance to getting creamed. Fucking dumbass.
Update on this
Mike Webb wrote:Was testing the sites for viruses
https://www.arlnow.com/2016/05/17/webb- ... r-viruses/Arlington Now wrote:Webb acknowledged that the episode has brought his quixotic campaign renewed attention, following his defeat in the race for the 8th District Republican congressional nomination. He insisted that it hasn’t cost him votes.
Because he is a W&L Alum, he fired off a very long long long email when he kicked off his campaign. I read it twice and shook my head at the crazy rambling. I am pretty sure I just deleted the message but if I can find it I will post.
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Funny, I posted a link to it last night, but it didn't post. I think I timed out since the wife came down to tell me something, which turned into 45 minutes.wlu_lax6 wrote: Webb is a graduate of my fine institution, is running in a district where I could choose to vote for him, and made me want to shake my head.
Update on thisMike Webb wrote:Was testing the sites for virusesArlington Now wrote:Webb acknowledged that the episode has brought his quixotic campaign renewed attention, following his defeat in the race for the 8th District Republican congressional nomination. He insisted that it hasn’t cost him votes.
Because he is a W&L Alum, he fired off a very long long long email when he kicked off his campaign. I read it twice and shook my head at the crazy rambling. I am pretty sure I just deleted the message but if I can find it I will post.
He posted an explanation that is clearly the ramblings of an insane man. Link
The full post was really long, and I have no idea what the fuck he was rambling about. It is very similar to ramblings I sift through at work when I get complaints from clinically insane employees. The most recent one was calling from the mental ward of a hospital, where she was involuntarily detained. I wish she mentioned that before we were 90 minutes into the conversation. I also wish she got to the reason for her call before we hit the 2 hour mark.Curious by nature, I wanted to test the suggestion that somehow, lurking out in the pornographic world there is some evil operator waiting for the one in a gazillion chance that a candidate for federal office would go to that particular website and thereby be infected with a virus that would cause his or her FEC data file to crash the FECfile application each time that it was loaded on the day of the filing deadline, as well as impact other critical campaign systems.
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"What a bunch of pedantic pricks." - sybian
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The Role of Politicians in an Oligarchy
Ian Welsh's blog. Good comments too, as usual. If TL/DR: To take the money and do as they are told. And to be your enemy.
Ian Welsh's blog. Good comments too, as usual. If TL/DR: To take the money and do as they are told. And to be your enemy.
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Book Discussion on America's War for the Greater Middle East
Professor Andrew Bacevich talked about his book America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, in which he looks at the United States' involvement in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War.
47 minute CSPAN video, recent interview with Andrew Bacevich, discussing our foreign policy. Link to the book here, but the same themes run through all his work, the history of the forces that shape the US actions in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Wonderful. He speaks many important truths. Watch it.
Professor Andrew Bacevich talked about his book America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, in which he looks at the United States' involvement in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War.
47 minute CSPAN video, recent interview with Andrew Bacevich, discussing our foreign policy. Link to the book here, but the same themes run through all his work, the history of the forces that shape the US actions in the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Wonderful. He speaks many important truths. Watch it.
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Interview with Cornel West. Critiques the last three candidates standing, and describes the distinction between a political campaign and a social movement. Pretty short.
Cornel West: Black America’s neo-liberal sleepwalking is coming to an end
Cornel West: Black America’s neo-liberal sleepwalking is coming to an end
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You guys watching this sit in stuff. I'm only able to follow via stories from random news and political websites.
Looks like the app Periscope is going to be the next big thing.
Looks like the app Periscope is going to be the next big thing.
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John Lewis is an American Hero.Johnnie wrote:You guys watching this sit in stuff. I'm only able to follow via stories from random news and political websites.
Looks like the app Periscope is going to be the next big thing.
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/jun/2 ... ds-kansas/
Instead, Kobach wants to institute a "partial provisional" process that allows election officials to go back into those provisional ballots and throw out any votes cast in state and local races and count only votes cast for president and U.S. Senate and House.
The state had a similar process in place in the 2014 elections in which a few hundred voters who registered with a federal form were affected. But implementing it in the upcoming elections is estimated to affect as many as 50,000 who registered to vote when they got their driver's licenses without providing the citizenship documentation.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson noted in her decision last month that the evidence shows only three instances in Kansas where noncitizens voted in a federal election between 1995 and 2013, and about 14 noncitizens confused about their eligibility who attempted to register during that period.
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DaveInSeattle wrote:John Lewis is an American Hero.Johnnie wrote:You guys watching this sit in stuff. I'm only able to follow via stories from random news and political websites.
Looks like the app Periscope is going to be the next big thing.
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No matter what happens in the UK vote tonight, David Cameron should be pilloried for putting the country through such a divisive campaign just so he could destroy Boris Johnson.
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True, especially considering even if 'leave' wins the election, the UK will reject the vote and stay regardless. A fucking charade.
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Looking forward to the Ryder Cup team realignment--I assume we'll be playing just the continentals?
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I doubt that. Ryder Cup was originally UK vs USA. And it will be at least a decade or two after dissolution of the EU (which is only a matter of time, maybe a decade or so, maybe less, regardless of referenda) before the UK has a shooting war with someone on the continent (haven't had a nice England-France war in 200 years) that would interfere with international sports.
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DL3 needs to take a hard line here.
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Really? I doubt that would occur. Everything I read now says they're leaving.howard wrote:True, especially considering even if 'leave' wins the election, the UK will reject the vote and stay regardless. A fucking charade.
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We'll see. There is a long history of national referendums on the EU and major EU policies being ignored. The UK is different, bigger, stronger tradition of democracy, but the powers that run the UK and Europe (the banks) may not accept this vote lying down.
Although, all the yammering heads on BBC and Sky are treating this vote as binding. I sure hope it is, that the politicians and the powers actually bend to the will of the people.
Granted, I am no expert on Brit politics. But I certainly understand well the disdain of the ruling class for the will of the people, in the UK, in Europe, and of course here.
The bigger issue, however, is the fact that the EU is doomed. It was doomed from the moment of creation, or from the failure after four decades to develop into a true political union. You cannot have a central singular monetary policy while each nation has its own fiscal policy. This contradiction has played out over the past decade, in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and as much as they deny it, France. The deeper contradiction of the UK having its own monetary policy (despite tight coordination with Brussels) and its own currency (unlinked from the Euro since 1993) leads to this vote. Not racist fears of immigrants, as much as that trope dominated the scaremongering discourse.
It's hilarious, every developed nation around the globe has been trying to devalue their currencies to boost trade/exports. But all the handringing about the crashing pound tonight. Japan is watching jealously, saying, 'wish the yen would do that.'
Gold is up tonight, against all paper currencies. Silver too, ironically while the "Sterling" is down.So there is that.
Although, all the yammering heads on BBC and Sky are treating this vote as binding. I sure hope it is, that the politicians and the powers actually bend to the will of the people.
Granted, I am no expert on Brit politics. But I certainly understand well the disdain of the ruling class for the will of the people, in the UK, in Europe, and of course here.
The bigger issue, however, is the fact that the EU is doomed. It was doomed from the moment of creation, or from the failure after four decades to develop into a true political union. You cannot have a central singular monetary policy while each nation has its own fiscal policy. This contradiction has played out over the past decade, in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and as much as they deny it, France. The deeper contradiction of the UK having its own monetary policy (despite tight coordination with Brussels) and its own currency (unlinked from the Euro since 1993) leads to this vote. Not racist fears of immigrants, as much as that trope dominated the scaremongering discourse.
It's hilarious, every developed nation around the globe has been trying to devalue their currencies to boost trade/exports. But all the handringing about the crashing pound tonight. Japan is watching jealously, saying, 'wish the yen would do that.'
Gold is up tonight, against all paper currencies. Silver too, ironically while the "Sterling" is down.So there is that.
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"If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea."
Too soon?
Too soon?
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The fact that people are seriously talking about Northern Ireland not only separating from the UK, but even reuniting with the Republic says a great deal about how catastrophic this is viewed as being.
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Um, I would not consider such talk as serious. If you took a referendum in the six counties, the vote would be overwhelmingly Unionist. This was always the fatal flaw of Sinn Fien/the IRA - the will of the people, who actually wanted to be part of the UK all these decades (because in large part, they are not Catholic). Northern Ireland ain't going anywhere.
Now, Scotland, otoh…
eta: but right on time with the Churchill quote. Although Winston was old school 'United States of Europe'.
Now, Scotland, otoh…
eta: but right on time with the Churchill quote. Although Winston was old school 'United States of Europe'.
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True. This has really been a referendum for the ages.. goes against every political science and economic books out there.
1. In a referendum if the polls are the close, the silent majority will always choose the status quo at the ballot box
NOPE
2. The big cities will decide the referendum
NOPE, NI and Scotland voted remain, London and Manchester voted remain, Birmingham was 50-50
3. Both ruling party, opposition party and sovereign parties were on the remain side.
UKIP has ONE seat in the house of commons and they win the entire referendum
4. The British pound had gone up 5% this week as experts predicted a Remain win
NOPE, the pound has since slid 12% in 4 hours.
5. And most important, the bookies got it wrong. Remain was 2/7
1. In a referendum if the polls are the close, the silent majority will always choose the status quo at the ballot box
NOPE
2. The big cities will decide the referendum
NOPE, NI and Scotland voted remain, London and Manchester voted remain, Birmingham was 50-50
3. Both ruling party, opposition party and sovereign parties were on the remain side.
UKIP has ONE seat in the house of commons and they win the entire referendum
4. The British pound had gone up 5% this week as experts predicted a Remain win
NOPE, the pound has since slid 12% in 4 hours.
5. And most important, the bookies got it wrong. Remain was 2/7
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It's going to be fun seeing how far my 401k craters today.
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This is why you have superdelegates.
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Nothing more dangerous than putting issues like this to a direct vote. When the average person is too stupid to know how the stock market works, or how diplomacy works, and is not above knee-jerk reactions, than a ridiculously complicated decision like this should not be put in the people's hands.Rex wrote:This is why you have superdelegates.
Look at how each side used fear to get people to vote - either immigrants will be flooding the country, or the economy could collapse.
Fun times ahead in Northern Ireland. Think the re-imposition of a heavily guarded border between it and the Republic is a positive thing?
It's sickening. Resigning isn't enough for Cameron, he should be publicly flogged.
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Thank goodness that can't work here. Oh, wait…Pruitt wrote: Look at how each side used fear to get people to vote…
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No kidding...howard wrote:Thank goodness that can't work here. Oh, wait…Pruitt wrote: Look at how each side used fear to get people to vote…
But that's why there are checks and balances in the constitution. When you ask the populace a direct question... just asking for trouble.
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This was the day the British people defied their jailers
A snip:
A snip:
Or calling them a bunch of hick racists.The young may have overwhelmingly voted Remain, too – but, hey, they will grow older someday. The young who voted Remain in 1975 overwhelmingly voted Leave in 2016. In part, perhaps, because they didn’t like being characterised as ancient bigots by the Remain side. Top tip for winning future elections: don’t call the electorate “thick” or “losers”. It, er, turns them off.
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howard wrote:This was the day the British people defied their jailers
A snip:Or calling them a bunch of hick racists.The young may have overwhelmingly voted Remain, too – but, hey, they will grow older someday. The young who voted Remain in 1975 overwhelmingly voted Leave in 2016. In part, perhaps, because they didn’t like being characterised as ancient bigots by the Remain side. Top tip for winning future elections: don’t call the electorate “thick” or “losers”. It, er, turns them off.
What a particularly English sentiment. I thought the "British Century" was the 18th.What happens now? We drink. We be happy. We sing a song. Then we piece back the country and get on with the great project of building the British century. We voted the right way because we’re a nation with a sense of destiny. The world is ours now. Go get it.
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I nearly quoted that part, with a similar comment. Building the 18th Century, all over again.
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I knew this bullshit was coming.P.D.X. wrote:Texas inspired by Brexit.
well this is gonna be someone's new signature - bronto
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I posted this on Facebook, but Jesus Christ.
All the hand-wringing that this vote means Trump can win in November is really asinine. I mean... A referendum on a single issue, in another country, says very little about our election.
And, as is being pointed out hilariously, gloating about Brexit in a country that voted overwhelming to Remain is just another in the long line of examples of Trump showing his orangutan ass to the world.
All the hand-wringing that this vote means Trump can win in November is really asinine. I mean... A referendum on a single issue, in another country, says very little about our election.
And, as is being pointed out hilariously, gloating about Brexit in a country that voted overwhelming to Remain is just another in the long line of examples of Trump showing his orangutan ass to the world.
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I love this. Let them go and they can have their Theocracy all to themselves and those who want that can boot scoot their happy little asses down there and elect Joel Osteen and we can all get on with the 21st century up here. Win/Win.Giff wrote:I knew this bullshit was coming.P.D.X. wrote:Texas inspired by Brexit.
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